We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The next-generation firewall is great."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"It is very flexible to use."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
Earn 20 points
McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG.
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